By:Derek

                     It all started when Mike Kroeger worked at Starbucks and he constantly said do you want your nickel back.
             Awards                                                Nickelback has won six Juno Awards, four Billboard Awards and went up for four Grammy nominations and tons of radio accreditation mostly because of their song “How You Remind Me”. One of the Juno Awards was for 2003 songwriter of the year. Nickelback was also named number one played band on the radio in 2002. After their song “How You Remind Me”, Nickelback wrote two more #1 rock songs “Too bad” and “Never Again”. Chad won the 2002 MTV video music award for the song “Hero” (from the movie Spiderman).




Their Music
        Nickelback has a some great albums like their new and favorite “The Long Road”. They also have “Silver Side Up”, “The State” and “Curb” and a lot of awesome songs like “How You Remind Me”, “Too bad”, and “Never Again”. Nickelback does a lot of their music recording in the Greenhouse studios or Chad’s studio in Vancouver.


The Band
    Mike Kroeger (the bassist) was born June 25,1972, two years later his younger brother Chad Kroeger (singer/guitarist and main song writer) was born on November 15,1974, they grew up in a town called Hanna, Alberta. The other band members Ryan Vikdel and Ryan Peake lived in Brooks, Alberta, but at that time they didn’t know each other existed. Ryan Peake (guitarist) was born March 1, 1973, he has been playing guitar since he was 14 and Ryan Vikdel (drummer) was born May 9, 1975. The band came together when, Ryan P. moved to Hanna and happen to meet up with the Kroeger brothers.  Ryan V. has just recently just left the band, so Nickelback hired a new drummer Daniel Adair. He used to play in the band 3 Doors Down.

 We should be proud to have such talent in our country.